E-procurement Furniture Raw Material for Small and Medium Enterprises in Malaysia

Due to rapid advancement of electronic commerce and web technologies in recent years,
the concepts and such applications have been significantly extended. This research will
look deeply into the e-procurement among the small medium enterprise (SME) and to
analyse their most needed and accurate requirement from this type of internet business
tools to run the business in Malaysia. The objective is to connect the ideas between
business environment (business scope) and the business requirement accurately
significantly to create an e-procurement system to provide a conductive platform for
product requisition, payment transaction, discussion, assistance, cooperation and
coordination between responsible vendors and serious customer including private sectors,
regional and international organizations. One of the main challenges is there nowadays
there's a lot of existing procurement system online involve, it is important to research and
analyst this existing systems to extract the main idea and compare it with the project
objective and requirement to finally discuss the best ideas that is required for the
proposed system. In this project, several techniques have been used starting with ideas
and information research and gathering that have been done through journals, existing
paper work, and previous systems that create by previous students. For the products
(furniture raw materials) information and attributes, considerable survey has been done
through the internet and magazine and also from the products questionnaire. Based on all
the research and findings, finally a working system (prototype) of an E-Procurement
intermediary for SME specifically on furniture raw materials should be implemented
and to be the best solution that satisfied all parties.